Festival of Data Technology

November 1 / 5, 2021

Online & In-Person Sessions and Workshops

GoDataFest, festival of data technology, online / in-person, 1 – 5 November, 2021.

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GoDataFest (Mon 1/11 – Fri 5/11) brings together conversations about the latest data technology into a hybrid event experience

Engage with product specialists and experienced practitioners from leading tech companies like AWS, Databricks, Google Cloud, Microsoft, NATS, Coiled, dbt labs, and more. Learn from the experiences of industry-leading enterprises the likes of ABN AMRO, Ahold, Heineken, Danone, Dexter, and Guidion.

GoDataFest is proudly powered by GoDataDriven. GoDataFest is organized as part of Club Cloud. Visit clubcloud.world for more sessions around cloud engineering, software engineering, security, strategy, and more.

Get ready for GoDataFest

November 1 / 5, 2021

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Expert sessions to celebrate data technology

GoDataFest features a multitude of sessions focused on various data technologies and platforms.

From fireside chats and presentations to ask-me-anything sessions and customer stories, each session is hosted by seasoned experts.

Covering a wide variety of innovations

You can expect insights, developments, and tutorials about the latest and greatest data technology.

Topics include modern data platforms, analytics engineering, data democratization, ML ops, pipeline orchestration, high-frequency trading, dbt (data build tool), and much, much more.

Develop your hands-on skills during workshops

During the workshops you can go hands-on with tools and techniques that will make you a better data professional.

Learn all about infrastructure-as-code, TensorFlow Extended, or join NVIDIA for a workshop around GPU Accelerated Data Science.

Scheduled Broadcasts

Nov 01
Nov 02
Nov 03
Nov 04
Nov 05

9:00 am - 12:00 pm

Data Platforms – 1 Nov

In session, we will dive deep into the modern data platform. After an overview of the components of the modern data stack, several seasoned experts, including Luuk Figdor (AWS), Santiago Ruiz (Royal Schiphol Group), Charlie Evans (Adevinta formerly eBay), Kevin Duisters (Interfood) and more, will share their experiences with the implementation of modern data platform and data applications that are built using the latest standards.

9:15 am Introduction to the Modern Data Platform

Host: Renald Buter

Guests: Diederik Greveling

10:00 am HOW AWS APPLIES DATA SCIENCE IN PROFESSIONAL SPORTS

Host: Renald Buter

Guests: Luuk Figdor

10:45 am Using Data Centric AI in Computer Vision at Schiphol

Host: Renald Buter

Guests: Santiago Ruiz, Marcel Raas

11:30 am Adevinta formerly eBay - migrating data analytics pipelines to Google Cloud

Host: Renald Buter

Guests: Charlie Evans

1:30 pm - 2:45 pm

Engineering Culture – 1 Nov

People and organization are essential factors for the implementation of successful data science products. Join this stream to learn how to develop a DevOps mindset and how to implement an agile approach to building data pipelines. Finally, learn how Danone established an enterprise-wide data literacy program.

1:30 pm An Agile Approach to Building Data Pipelines

Host: Steven Nooijen

2:15 pm Danone: Data Literacy through Professional Training

Host: Camilla Björkqvist

9:00 am - 11:15 am

Strategy & Innovation – 2 Nov

Experts from the field share the pros and cons of agile for teams that use cloud technology and learn from Bas Karsemeijer, head of Data & Analytics, how HEMA uses data to deliver an unforgettable customer experience.

9:00 am CLOUD AND AGILE; CURSE OR BLESSING?

Host: Guido van den Boom

Guests: Theo Gerrits

10:00 am HEMA’S JOURNEY TOWARDS AN UNFORGETTABLE CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE

Host: Guido van den Boom

Guests: Bas Karsemeijer

10:45 am THE QUANTITY OF QUALITY: IMAGE RECOGNITION LESSONS FROM THE FLOWER AUCTION

Host: Renald Buter

Guests: Vadim Nelidov, Dirk Guijt

11:15 am - 5:30 pm

Data Platforms – 3 nov

Data Tools and Technology Get to grips with the latest tools for data engineering and data observability: dbt, Coiled, and SODA. Learn from the people who are closely involved in the development of the products that are rapidly becoming the tools of choice for leading enterprises. Midway through the session, you will have the opportunity to learn more about TensorFlow Extended running on Airflow during the workshop. Then it's time to dive into SODA, a smart observability tool. After which, Juan Manuel Perafan will share some of the nightmares anyone who has ever developed a dashboard definitely wants to avoid. This packed session ends with an introduction to Coiled.

11:15 am dbt Vision and Developments

Host: Renald Buter

Guests: Jeremy Cohen

1:30 pm ML Ops workshop: Tensorflow Extended running on Airflow

Host: Roman Ivanov

Guests: Julian de Ruiter

3:15 pm SODA - Smart Data Observability

Host: Renald Buter

Guests: Cor Zuurmond, Maarten Masschelein

4:15 pm Dashboarding nightmares - Juan

Host: Renald Buter

Guests: Juan Manuel Perafan

5:00 pm COILED: BURST TO THE CLOUD WITH DATA SCIENCE AND ML WORKFLOWS

Host: Renald Buter

Guests: Matt Rocklin

8:15 am - 10:15 am

Workshop Delta Lake Sharing – Databricks – Nov 4

In May of this year, Databricks released Delta Sharing, an open protocol for the secure exchange of massive datasets. Through the generation of pre-signed, short-lived URLs pointing directly at requested data, and their distribution to authenticated data consumers, Delta Sharing facilitates real-time, platform-agnostic access to an organization’s information. This makes Delta Sharing well-suited as a means to inter-domain dataset distribution in the Data Mesh. Data Mesh is an architectural paradigm that erupted into the public consciousness at around the same time. This code breakfast consists of two parts.

8:15 am Data requests via Delta Sharing

Host: Kris Geusebroek

9:15 am Introduction to Data Mesh

Host: Robert Rodger

11:30 am - 12:30 pm

RAPIDS Workshop – 4 Nov

RAPIDS is an open-source software that accelerates the whole Data Science Pipeline from Data Preparation/Visualization to Machine Learning on GPU. In this workshop, you get familiar with RAPIDS which runs on Python with pandas/scikit-learn-like API and you experience the speed-up it provides.

11:30 am Rapids - NVIDIA Workshop

Host: Ahmet Erdem

1:30 pm - 2:30 pm

Data Science in Production – 4 nov

Let’s take data science in production! In this stream, you’ll have the opportunity to learn from leading enterprises that leverage data applications to improve their operation. Ahold Delhaize, Mollie, and Royal FloraHolland are three very distinct organizations that share their belief in the value and potential of data-driven business.

2:00 am Heineken

Host: Renald Buter

Guests: Ciaran Jetten

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Databricks – 4 nov

Learn about the latest developments from Databricks. Field CTO Chris d'Agostino will take us through enabling data at scale with Lakehouse, while solutions architect Ivo Everts will share his story of twenty years of Data and AI in Amsterdam!

4:00 pm The view from the Lakehouse: Enabling data at scale

Host: Renald Buter

Guests: Chris D’Agostino

4:45 pm A tale about 20 years of AI in Amsterdam

Host: Renald Buter

Guests: Ivo Everts

6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Google Cloud – 4 nov

Join Google's specialists to learn more about some of the hottest GCP topics of the moment: Datamesh, streaming data ingestion, Vertex AI and App Modernization with Anthos.

6:00 pm Datamesh or Streaming Data Ingestion - Google

Host: Renald Buter

Guests: Navin Goel

7:00 pm Vertex AI - Google

Host: Renald Buter

Guests: Wouter Roosenburg

8:00 pm App Modernization with Anthos - Google

Host: Renald Buter

Guests: Rushil Sharma

2:45 pm - 3:30 pm

Analytics Engineering – 5 Nov

2:45 pm CDP Templating at Interfood

Host: Renald Buter

3:00 pm What is Analytics Engineering & Data Democratizaton

Host: Renald Buter

Guests: Kevin Duisters, Bram Ochsendorf

Scheduled Workshops

Analytics Engineering

Data engineering

Data platforms

DBT

Transfer Learning

Meet our speakers

Each day we cover a wide variety of topics on various themes and technologies. Sessions can be attended online, in-person or both, and can consist of live as well as pre-recorded content.

Bart Klaver Managing Director SALTO Keys as a Service

Ahmet Erdem Senior Data Scientist NVIDIA

Alexandru Iosup Full Professor Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Andrès Koetsier Cloud Consultant Oblivion

Antonis Sgouros Cloud Consultant / Tech Lead Oblivion

Bart Verlaat CEO Binx.io

Bas Karsemeijer Head of Data & Analytics HEMA

Bram Ochsendorf Lead data scientist at GoDataDriven

Camilla Björkqvist Global Data & Analytics Transformation Director at Danone

Chris D’Agostino Global Field CTO Databricks

Ciaran Jetten Senior Manager Global Analytics Transformation Heineken

Charlie Evans Senior Software Engineer at eBay Adevinta formerly eBay

Cor Zuurmond Data Demystifier & Machine Learning Engineer GoDataDriven

Daniel Gebler CTO at Picnic

Diederik Greveling ML Engineer GoDataDriven

Dirk Guijt Lead Data Scientist at Royal FloraHolland

Elaine Versloot COO Binx.io

Guido van den Boom Partner Digital Transformation at Xebia

Ivo Everts Solutions Architect at Databricks

Jacco Kulman Cloud Engineer at Binx.io

Jasper Ginn Host GoDataFest

Jeremy Cohen Product Manager dbt Labs

Jeremy Cohen Product Manager dbt Labs

Jeroen van der Leer Cloud Consultant Oblivion

Joost Olieroock Data & Analytics Lead Guidion

Juan Manuel Perafan Analytics Engineer

Julian de Ruiter Machine Learning Engineer at GoDataDriven

Kevin Duisters Commercial Analytics Lead at Interfood

Kris Geusebroek Data Engineer at GoDataDriven

Luca Cavallin Cloud Engineer at Binx.io

Luuk Figdor Data Scientist Amazon Web Services

Maarten Masschelein Co-Founder Soda Soda

Marcel Raas Data Scientist at GoDataDriven

Matt Rocklin CEO at Coiled

Michel Zitman Cloud Consultant Oblivion

Mike Jekel Value Stream Manager HEMA

Monique Dekker Partner Digital Transformation at Xebia

Natasha (Mutepuka) Lauer Head Of Marketing Soda

Navin Goel Customer Engineer Google

Renald Buter Chief Operations GoDataDriven

Rene van Osnabrugge Transformation Consultant Xpirit

Robert Rodger Data Scientist at GoDataDriven

Roel Bertens Data Scientist at GoDataDriven

Roman Ivanov Machine Learning Engineer at GoDataDriven

Rushil Sharma Customer Engineer Hybrid Cloud at Google

Santiago Ruiz Senior Data Scientist (Computer Vision) at Royal Schiphol Group

Sohan Maheswar Developer Advocate Amazon Web Services

Steven Nooijen Data Scientist GoDataDriven

Steyn Huizinga Chief Technology Officer Oblivion

Sidney Borrego y Diaz AWS Cloud Consultant Oblivion

Theo Gerrits Senior Consultant Xebia

Vadim Nelidov Data Scientist at GoDataDriven

Wouter Roosenburg Customer Engineer at Google

Frequently Asked Questions

For whom is GoDataFest?

GoDataFest is for anyone with an interest in data technology. Be it strategic and organizational, operational and practical, or simply a general interest. Sessions are scheduled around themes, so that you can create your own custom schedule.

When does GoDataFest take place?

The event starts on Monday, November 1 and ends on Friday, November 5, 2021

Is the registration free of of charge?

Yes, thanks to our sponsors, we can offer access to the exclusive GoDataFest streamed content free of charge. All you need to do is register. Some of the afternoon workshops that are an exception. For some of them, we charge a small fee.

Is it ok to attend more than one session?

Yes absolutely, you are more than welcome to join the event the entire week.

How do I get access to the video streams?

When you register, you will receive a confirmation e-mail. This e-mail contains a password that gives you access to the stream page.

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